Sourcefire Extends Intrusion Prevention to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation Platform

Strategic Insights

Oct 23, 2011 — 1 min read

Sourcefire, the creator of Snort and a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, has announced plans to add support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation to its enterprise IPS portfolio. This move further extends Sourcefire's strategy to deliver heterogeneous hypervisor support to customers, aligning with the Open Virtualisation Alliance (OVA) founded by Red Hat, IBM, HP, and Intel. The OVA aims to foster the adoption of the open-source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, upon which Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation is based.

Key Takeaways:

Sourcefire plans to add support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation to its enterprise IPS portfolio, expanding its heterogeneous hypervisor support.
Sourcefire has joined the Open Virtualisation Alliance (OVA), founded by Red Hat, IBM, HP, and Intel, to foster the adoption of the open-source KVM hypervisor.
The OVA aims to promote the adoption of KVM, upon which Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation is based, and has welcomed Sourcefire as a member.
Sourcefire's support for heterogeneous environments provides added flexibility to enterprises and cloud computing companies.
Sourcefire's Virtual 3D Sensor and Virtual Defense Center offer simultaneous execution of Sourcefire IPS and Next-Generation IPS functions, with up to 25 virtual or physical 3D Sensors that can be monitored from a single physical Defense Center.
The addition of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation support expands Sourcefire's portfolio of supported virtual environments, including Xen and VMware.

Statistics:

At least three leading virtual environments are supported by Sourcefire, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation, Xen, and VMware.
Sourcefire's Virtual 3D Sensor and Virtual Defense Center can monitor up to 25 virtual or physical 3D Sensors.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation is based on the open-source KVM hypervisor.
The OVA was founded by Red Hat, IBM, HP, and Intel to promote the adoption of KVM.

Sources:

M2 PRESSWIRE, October 24, 2011
Sourcefire press release
Red Hat website
Open Virtualisation Alliance (OVA) website

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